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Warm congratulations to my doctoral student Holly Wiberg who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Holly!

Current Students

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Thodoris Koukouvinos

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George Margaritis

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Pericles Petrides

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Maura Suzanne Hegarty

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Vassilina Stoumpou

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Dewang Kumar Agarwal

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Graduated PhD Students

Data, Models and Decisions in Large-Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems, 2016

Regression under a modern optimization lens, 2015

John Silberholz

Analytics for Improved Cancer Screening and Treatment, (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care), 2015

Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization, (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012), 2015

From data to decisions through new interfaces between optimization and statistics (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2015

Data-driven models for uncertainty and behavior (best paper award among ORC students in 2013, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2013), 2014

Personalized diabetes management, 2013 (winner of the William Pierskalla award in 2013 for best paper in Health care)

Chaithanya Bandi

Tractable stochastic analysis in high dimensions: a robust optimization approach, 2013 (best paper award among ORC students in 2012, finalist in the Nicholson competition in 2012)

Matthew Fontana

Optimal routes for electric vehicles facing uncertainty, congestion and energy constraints, 2013

Integer optimization methods for machine learning, 2012

Michael Frankovich

Air traffic flow management at airports: A unified optimization approach, 2012

A tractable optimization framework for air traffic flow management addressing fairness, collaboration and stochasticity. 2012

Decomposition methods for large scale stochastic and robust optimization problems, 2011

Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems, 2011

Nikolaos Trichakis

Fairness in operations: from theory to practice, 2011 (winner of the second prize of George Dantzig Best thesis award, 2011)

Graduated Postdoctoral Students

Bartolomeo Stellato

John Silberholrz

Angelos Georghiou

Ebrahim Nasrabadi

Christopher Maes

Eugene Perevalov

Graduated Masters Students

Thai Dung Nguyen

Application of robust and inverse optimization in transportation, 2010

Van Vinh Nguyen

Fairness and optimality in trading, 2010

Robust option pricing - an epsilon arbitrage approach, 2009

Optimizing the operations of the emergency department at the Beth Israel Hospital via simulation, 2008

Robust optimization applications, 2008

A robust optimization approach to network equilibrium, 2007

Optimal bounds for American options, 2006

A robust optimization approach to optimization of queueing networks, 2006

Cheong Foong Soon

Hedging Strategy and Effect of Transaction Costs for American Options in an Incomplete Market, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2002

Constantine Caramanis

Bounds on linear partial differential equations via semidefinite optimization, 2001

A discrete optimization approach to classification, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2001

Pricing in a competitive environment: a learning approach, 2000

Constantine Tsiligakis

Portfolio construction through mixed integer programming, 1999

Supply chain management: an approximate dynamic programming approach, 1998

Multiperiod portfolio optimization: Feynmann diagrams and approximate dynamic programming, 1998